Conducted as a partial replication of the CHICAGO LAWYERS
SURVEY, 1975 (ICPSR 8218), this 1994-1995 survey sought to analyze the
processes of change that transformed the practice of law and the
market for legal services over the two decades between 1975 and
1995. Randomly selected Chicago, Illinois, lawyers were asked about,
for example, the nature of their work, work settings, fields of
practice, job satisfaction, career histories, professional commitment,
client characteristics, and soc... (more info)

Conducted as a partial replication of the CHICAGO LAWYERS
SURVEY, 1975 (ICPSR 8218), this 1994-1995 survey sought to analyze the
processes of change that transformed the practice of law and the
market for legal services over the two decades between 1975 and
1995. Randomly selected Chicago, Illinois, lawyers were asked about,
for example, the nature of their work, work settings, fields of
practice, job satisfaction, career histories, professional commitment,
client characteristics, and social and political values. Results
revealed important changes in the legal profession between 1975 and
1995: women entered the profession in substantial numbers, new
specialties were created, law firms and corporate legal departments
grew dramatically, and in many organizations the practice of law
became constrained by bureaucratic rules and procedures. Background
information includes state of residence during high school, college or
university attended, law school attended, law school class rank,
political preference, degree of political party affiliation, religious
preference, marital status, nationality, year of birth, income, race,
zip code, number of children, work status of spouse, spouse's
nationality, respondents' mother's occupation, respondents' mother's
law school, respondents' father's occupation, and respondents'
father's law school.

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Universe:
Lawyers in good standing with the Illinois Attorney
Registration and Disciplinary Commission who had a Chicago address and
were under the age of 80 and alive in 1994, African American lawyers
working in Chicago in 1994, and Latino lawyers working in Chicago in
1994.

Data Types:
survey data

Methodology

Sample:
There are three separate samples in the dataset: (1) A
simple random sample was used. (2) African American respondents from
the simple random sample were then asked to nominate other African
American lawyers in each of a number of practice settings. A random
sample stratified by practice setting was then selected from these
nominations. (3) Latino lawyers were chosen by identifying every
lawyer listed in Sullivan's directory with a last name that matched
those on a list of Spanish surnames compiled by the United States
Census. A random sample was then taken from that list.